Monthly Archives: October 2023

Antisemitism so atrocious that even the Jews object

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The news these post-pogrom days is filled with stories of Jews objecting to actions committed in the name of leftism.

The left’s darling of the Mideast – Hamas – ransacked towns in the Jewish homeland established by the United Nations 75 years ago, in a display of rape and pillaging unmatched since the Dark Ages.

Maniacal, drug-infused, Jew-hating, Hitlerian crazies raped, beheaded, murdered and burned alive Jewish civilians, took others hostage for display, torture and execution, and filmed their carnage to proudly post on the internet. At least Genghis Khan didn’t post on the internet. 

Conservatives have universally decried the barbarous spectacle.

The left, however, is not so sure. Many on the left have justified and even cheered it. For example, The Squad promoted Hamas propaganda that a Palestinian hospital was bombed by Israel, even after video indisputably showed it was bombed by an errant missile headed not from Israel but toward it.

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This Halloween, ask yourself “What am I celebrating?”

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It’s all fun and games till they start beheading babies

I liked Halloween as a boy because, even then, I was a cheapskate. I loved getting candy, and I loved even more getting it for free.

When I was about 11, my three siblings came down with the flu. Oddly, I didn’t. I went out trick-or-treating alone till about 10:30, way past my bedtime, while my sister and brothers languished at home praying to the porcelain god.

I took in quite a haul. Two full bags. Probably today’s equivalent of a couple hundred dollars’ worth of candy. 

I was afraid that night. Not of goblins or ghosts. No, I was afraid that my sibs would steal some of my hard-earned free candy. I ate as much as I possibly could, and then some more, but there was still an overflowing bag of the sugary crap. To guard it from my ill siblings, I put it right next to my bed.

That night, the flu, the candy, and the fates, caught up with me. I turned on my side and projectile-puked right off the bed into – you already guessed it – the candy bag.

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I’m bored with Taylor Swift

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Not that there was ever much between us, other than distance. But she seems like an Aspen sort of gal, and I wouldn’t hold that against her.

She’s evidently a singer. She might even write some of her own stuff. So we have something in common. I too am a singer, and I too write some of my own stuff. There’s:

The Ants are my friends, they’re blowin’ in the wind.

And:

Since you left me, you’ve seen me with some other girls, lookin’ like I’m having fun;

But though they might be cute, they’re just prostitutes…

Then there’s:

This is the dawning of the Age of Asparagus

And, of course, the one I made famous one intoxicating and intoxicated Karaoke night:

… there’s a bathroom on the right…

Back to Taylor. She’s got talent. She’s certainly pretty rich and even kinda pretty. I give her a B+ in music and an A+ in business.

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Downtown Denver has become a pus-filled sore in an overflowing post-apocalyptic outhouse

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Denver was my home for most of my adult life while I made a career in law. It wasn’t exactly Paris, but even Paris isn’t exactly Paris anymore. Denver was at least pleasant, clean and fairly safe.

Cheapskate that I am, I made a practice of parking about eight blocks away from my downtown office, in the direction of the “bad” part of town. (The parking rate was 10 cents a day – really!) I never had any problems.

As many of you know, I then retired and moved to Aspen. About six years ago, I bought a second home in Denver, in a downtown high-rise condo. I get around.

But now I’m done with my downtown Denver condo. What’s happened to downtown Denver in just the last three years is disgraceful and disgusting.

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The Western Wall

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Note: I published this piece nine years ago when I was treking in Israel for a while. The unspeakable horror of last weekend prompts me to publish it again, my own small tribute to my Israeli and other Jewish friends.

Muslims have the Taj Mahal and Mecca. Catholics have St. Peter’s Basilical and the Vatican.

Jews have a wall.

The Western Wall is a stack of massive stone blocks a few dozen feet high and a couple of hundred feet long. It’s all that’s left of Jerusalem’s second Jewish temple, a structure that astonished even the Romans. The Romans destroyed it to punish the Jews for their Great Revolt in 70 A.D.

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Did the Biden administration withhold intel from Israel?

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Palestinian terrorists (no, that’s not necessarily redundant) in Gaza launched a brutal terrorist attack on Israel yesterday. They slaughtered at least 800 Israelis, many of them unarmed women and children. Some were taken hostage back to Gaza where they were paraded through the streets and beaten.

It was a massive and highly coordinated attack with incursions by land, air and sea. From a thousand miles away, Iran was likely funding and coordinating it. There had to be a lot of cyber chatter preceding the attack.

Yet Israel was apparently caught by complete surprise.

The question being rightly asked is, how could Israel’s intel operations – one of the most sophisticated in the world – have been caught so off-guard?

The answer may be in Washington. The Biden administration has never gotten along with the Israeli government, nor did the Obama administration where Biden ws Vice President. Biden and Obama have both seemed determined to let Iran – a terrorist state that has vowed to destroy Israel – get a nuclear bomb, and experts think that at any given moment they could have one in a matter of months. Biden just gave Iran six billion dollars in exchange for American hostages that Iran had taken.

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Hillary wants to send you to the nuthouse

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Hillary Clinton – remember her? – appeared for a friendly interview this week with one of the adoring lefty media people.

Hil lamented the fact that Donald Trump has a constituency that would charge through fire with him. (Whether Trump would lead that charge from the front or from behind is a topic for another column.)

Joe Biden’s constituency, in contrast, is of a different type. They wouldn’t follow him to the ice cream stand, and they certainly wouldn’t let their daughters do so. Most of them don’t even want him to run for re-election.

If you’re a Democrat, this is a problem. Unenthusiastic voters don’t vote.

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But wait, I thought walls didn’t work!

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We were told by illegal immigration activists for years that walls don’t work, Oddly, however, they lobbied vigorously against a wall along our porous border with Mexico. If walls don’t work, I wondered, why are the pro-illegal immigration activists so dead set against them?

And if walls don’t work, I further wondered, why did the Berlin Wall succeed in imprisoning freedom-seekers for decades? Why are there walls around prisons? Why is there a wall around the White House?

But I’m not a wall scientist, so I figured there must be good answers to those questions but the answers were beyond my ken. I did learn from yard signs that it’s important to follow the science and that there is no such thing as an illegal human. So, I figured there must be something I was missing about wall-atology.

Former and future President Donald Trump seemed to miss it too. He built walls on portions of our border with Mexico to reduce illegal border crossings.

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Hard-line Republicans just handed the House to the Dems

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is a smart guy and astute politician. Threatening to shut down the government, he put together a spending bill that cut spending dramatically (by DC standards, anyway). He was prepared to pass it in his House, and send it to the Dem-controlled Senate. There, everyone knew it would die, but it would be a starting point for negotiations between the Senate and the House.

But McCarthy never got the chance. Predictably, the House Dems opposed it on the grounds it cut spending too much. Less predictably, half a dozen GOP hard-liners also opposed it – for not cutting spending enough.

To avoid a shutdown, McCarthy watered down the bill. The watered-down bill didn’t cut spending as much, but did garner the votes of most of the Dems and most of the GOP too. The Senate Dems and Joe Biden were delighted with the bill, and promptly passed it and signed it.

Which infuriated the GOP hard-liners. They moved to remove McCarthy from the speakership.

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